The latest Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers

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The latest Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers news release
(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf)
was issued today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights are below.
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Median weekly earnings of the nation's 100.6 million full-time wage and salary
workers were $753 in the second quarter of 2011. This was 1.8 percent higher
than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 3.4 percent in the Consumer Price
Index for All Urban Consumers.